Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential for low-cost and bloodless resolution of conflicts brings with it other problems. Army chaplains recently met to consider the moral implications of cyberwar--fearing, for example, that in lightning-quick electronic attacks, an enemy that wanted to surrender would never have the chance. Treaties may have to be rewritten before chemicals are used to tag enemy soldiers for aerial sensors or biological agents are deployed to eat electronics. Knocking out a stock exchange may seem attractive at first glance, but Washington is reluctant to engage in financial fiddling for the same reason it avoids assassination of foreign leaders...
...current incarnation of moral reasoning is simply not enough; even former president Bok wrote that ethicstraining instructors "are typically less concerned with presenting solutions than with engaging the class in an active discussion to encourage students to perceive ethical issues, identify the competing arguments, evaluate these contending views and ultimately arrive at thoughtfully reasoned conclusions." Indeed, small seminars would allow students an opportunity for the intensive, active consideration of ethical standards that is most likely to have a real impact...
...years, the College has required such small seminars for only one purpose: the teaching of expository writing. Knowing how to write effectively is certainly essential for success in nearly all professions, especially academia. But knowing how to detect ethical problems and how to reason through moral dilemmas is equally, if not more important to students' success in achieving both their own goals and those of society. (And this is particularly true at a College that prides itself on the graduates it's placed in influential positions in the public and private sectors...
...certainly not advocating the elimination of the Expository Writing requirement. But if the teaching of writing is important enough that the University requires all undergraduates to enroll in small, intensive seminars, isn't moral reasoning important enough to the University to receive similar treatment...
...well be," wrote Rosovsky, "that the most significant quality in educated persons is the informed judgment that enables them to make discriminating moral choices...